The
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal is the central bus station for inter-city
services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 610 Bay Street,
in the city's Downtown. The terminal is owned by
Toronto
Toronto Coach
Terminal Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Toronto
Toronto Transit
Commission (TTC).[1] The TTC managed the station directly until July
8, 2012, when it was leased out in its entirety to bus lines Coach
Canada
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Canada and Greyhound
Canada
Canada for $1.2 million annually.[2][3] Opened in
1931 as the
Gray Coach
Gray Coach Terminal, the
Art Deco
Art Deco style terminal was home
base for Gray Coach, an interurban bus service then owned by the TTC.
It replaced an earlier open air terminal, Gray Line Terminal.[4]
Contents
1 Location
2 Renovations
3 Services
4 Future
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Location[edit]
Entrance to the
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal on Bay St.
The
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal is located one block west of Dundas subway
station, and connected to it underground via the PATH network. It is
also about the same distance from St. Patrick subway station. The bus
platforms are located on Edward Street, on the west side of the
terminal building. A small side entrance on the west side off
Elizabeth Street, is connected to the main concourse area on Bay
Street by a corridor behind the bus platforms.
Renovations[edit]
The bus platforms at the rear of the main terminal, as seen from
above. Departure platforms are housed in the structure in the middle,
while the structure in the distant right houses the arrival platforms.
The terminal is a two-storey historic building with a four platform
bays designed by architect Charles B. Dolphin. and later expanded with
seven bay platforms. In 1984, the building containing the east bus
bays was renovated by demolishing the internal walls, keeping the
external north and west walls intact—a process known as facadism.[5]
An annex, located to the west of the main terminal building on
Elizabeth Street, houses buses using the terminal. A renovation of the
main terminal building occurred in 1990 to create more seating for
waiting passengers and an upstairs restaurant which has since been
closed with railings overlooking main floor enclosed with glass.
The modern west annex was originally built to handle
GO Transit
GO Transit bus
arrivals and departures but with the relocation of GO buses to the new
Union Station Bus Terminal
Union Station Bus Terminal on Front Street in 2003, the annex now
handles arrivals for the remaining bus lines while departures leave
from the main terminal, a set-up that is rather unusual for bus
terminals or other passenger transportation infrastructure. Nearby
landmarks include the
Toronto
Toronto Eaton Centre, the Atrium on Bay, the
Hospital for Sick Children, and the
Toronto
Toronto City Hall and Nathan
Phillips Square. It is also within walking distance of Chinatown.
Services[edit]
The terminal is now used by Coach Canada, Greyhound Canada, and
Ontario
Ontario Northland.
From the
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal, Coach
Canada
Canada operates casino shuttles
from
Toronto
Toronto to
Fallsview Casino
Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls. Under the Megabus
Canada
Canada brand, Coach
Canada
Canada operates double-decker buses to Montreal
via Kingston with stops in Kirkland, QC, Cornwall, Brockville, and the
Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal. Coach
Canada
Canada also operates buses to
Niagara Falls, with select buses going to Buffalo and Buffalo
International Airport. In conjunction with Megabus USA (operated by
Coach USA), Coach
Canada
Canada operates buses to Buffalo, NY, Buffalo
International Airport, Rochester on limited schedules, Syracuse, New
York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. Please see the
Toronto
Toronto Hub section on this page for more information on their
schedules.
Greyhound
Canada
Canada operates buses from the
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal to
Ottawa, Belleville, Peterborough, Pembroke, London, Windsor, and
Detroit.
Greyhound
Canada
Canada also operates a small network of commuter services
branded as Quicklink. Buses run from the
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal to
Barrie, Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener, Niagara Falls, St. Catharines,
Peterborough, and Waterloo.
Future[edit]
Metrolinx, the government agency that oversees transit in the Greater
Toronto
Toronto and Hamilton Area, plans to construct a new intercity bus
terminal, which would ideally replace both the Coach Terminal and
Union Station Bus Terminal
Union Station Bus Terminal and house
GO Transit
GO Transit buses, Greyhound and
Coach
Canada
Canada in one location. The Coach Terminal proposed that a new
facility be built at the terminal's current location combining the
original terminal and the Elizabeth Street annex into one structure
that could fit double the current number of bus bays.[6] However, in
September 2014
Metrolinx
Metrolinx announced plans to relocate the Union Station
Bus Terminal to a new terminal building and development at 45 Bay
Street.[7] The relocation of intercity bus service from the Coach
Terminal to the new station is under negotiation.[8] In April 2017,
TTC staff proposed that the terminal be declared surplus when Coach
Canada
Canada and Greyhound
Canada
Canada vacate the terminal. The city agency Build
Toronto
Toronto is interested in acquiring the property for redevelopment.[9]
See also[edit]
Sunnyside Bus Terminal, a satellite
Gray Coach
Gray Coach passenger terminal that
operated in Toronto's west end until the bus line's closure.
References[edit]
^ a b TTC Subsidiary Companies
^ Ask Torontoist: What’s Happening at the
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal?,
Torontoist
^ McAllister, Mark (2015-02-16). "
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal hampered with
maintenance issues". Global News. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
^ Opening Day at the
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal, 1931
^ http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/data/200812220430.shtml
^ Allen, Kate (January 7, 2012). "Landmark bus depot loses its
lustre".
Toronto
Toronto Star. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
^
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/union-station-getting-new-go-bus-terminal-office-tower-development-1.2782397
^ "45 BAY & UNION STATION GO BUS TERMINAL REDEVELOPMENT SITE PLAN
APPLICATION" (PDF). 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
^ "
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal Inc. (TCTI) – 610
Bay Street
Bay Street and 130
Elizabeth Street,
Toronto
Toronto – Lease Disposition" (PDF). Toronto
Transit Commission. 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
External links[edit]
Media related to
Toronto
Toronto Coach Terminal at Wikimedia Commons
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